WBan Zhao, courtesy name Huiban, was a Chinese historian, philosopher, and politician. She was the first known female Chinese historian. She completed her brother Ban Gu's work on the history of the Western Han, the Book of Han. She also wrote Lessons for Women, an influential work on women's conduct. She also had great interest in astronomy and mathematics and wrote poems, commemorative writings, argumentations, commentaries, essays and several longer works, not all of which survive. She became China's most famous female scholar and an instructor of Taoist sexual practices for the imperial family.
WCheng Naishan was a writer from China who came from an upper-class background, had lived in Hong Kong, was trained in the English language, and was a Christian. Unlike her contemporaries, she taught English and later wrote in English. One of the most well-known of the Shanghai School (haipai) writing style, Cheng revived the literary legacy of the elites who had been rejected during the Cultural Revolution. She won numerous awards for her novels and short stories before embarking on a series of non-fiction works telling the history of "Old Shanghai".
WDong Mingzhu is a Chinese businesswoman who serves as Chairwoman of Gree Electric.
WFeng Yuanjun was a writer and scholar of Chinese classical literature and literary history. She was married to fellow literary scholar Lu Kanru with whom she coauthored several literary works.
WGrace Gao, also known as Grace Geng, is a Chinese human rights activist. She is daughter of imprisoned Chinese human rights lawyer and dissident Gao Zhisheng. She and her family have been spied on, beaten and intimidated by the Chinese authorities. She lectures internationally to promote her father's book A China More Just and to bring attention to his case, and speak out against human rights abuses in China.And so, I find myself in a position of picking up the mantle and becoming a human rights defender like my father.
WHe Qinglian is a Chinese author and economist, most prominently known for her critical view of Chinese society and media controls in China.
WJiang Biwei was influential in the lives of the painter Xu Beihong and the politician Chang Tao-fan. She published her memoirs and she is portrayed in Chinese historical dramas.
WJi-li Jiang is an author. She is most famous for the memoir, Red Scarf Girl, as well as The Magical Monkey King. She grew up and lived in Shanghai, China in a large apartment with her family.
WLi Yinhe is a sociologist, sexologist, and activist for LGBT rights in the People's Republic of China. Her main academic interests have been sexual norms in contemporary China, homosexuality, diverse sexual behaviors including sadomasochism, and women's studies.
WLin Zongsu was a Chinese suffragist and writer. She founded the first women's suffrage organization in China and was one of China's most noted political feminist activists in the Qing-early Republican period. She also became one of China's first woman journalists and newspaper editors. As a journalist, she published widely on women's rights and led several women's organizations until democracy was suppressed in 1913. In later life, she taught in Singapore and ran a boating enterprise there which was able to finance her brother's newspapers in China. After a decade in Southeast Asia, she and her husband returned to China and lived in the southern part of the country where their business operations were located.
WLing Shuhua, also known as Su-hua Ling Chen after her marriage, was a Chinese modernist writer and painter whose short stories became popular during the 1920s and 1930s. Her work continues to be widely anthologized today.
WAnchee Min or Min Anqi is a Chinese-American author who lives in San Francisco and Shanghai. Min has published two memoirs, Red Azalea and The Cooked Seed: A Memoir, and six historical novels. Her fiction emphasizes strong female characters, such as Jiang Qing, the wife of chairman Mao Zedong, and Empress Dowager Cixi, the last ruling empress of China.
WPingmei Shi or Shi Pingmei was a Chinese writer. She was considered as one of the four women famous for their contributions to modern Chinese literature in the early Republic of China.
WSu Xuelin or Su Hsüeh-lin was a Chinese author and scholar.
WWang Menghan, also known as Tau Tau, is an author and film producer. She was born in Harbin and grew up in Shanghai. She lived in North Africa for many years and now she is living in Berlin.
WWang Yao, born June 4, 1984, known by the pen name Xia Jia, is a Chinese science-fiction and fantasy writer. After receiving her Ph.D. in comparative literature and world literature at Department of Chinese, Peking University in 2014, she is currently a lecturer of Chinese literature at Xi'an Jiaotong University.
WXie Daoyun was a Chinese poet, writer, scholar, calligrapher and debater of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
WXuē Xīnrán is a British-Chinese journalist, author, speaker, and advocate for women's issues. She was a popular radio personality in China with a call-in program named "Words on the Night Breeze" from 1989 to 1997. The program focused on women's issues and life stories. She was well known for travelling extensively in China to interview women for her work. In 1997, she moved to London and began writing stories of the women she met along her journeys. Her first book, The Good Women of China, was published in 2002, becoming an international bestseller. She frequently contributes to The Guardian and the BBC.
WEmpress Xu (徐皇后), formally Empress Renxiaowen (仁孝文皇后), was the empress consort to the Yongle Emperor and the third empress of China's Ming dynasty. She was well educated, compiling bibliographies of virtuous women, an activity connected with court politics.
WXu Guangping, her former name "Xu Chongqian" (许崇媊), was a Chinese female writer, politician, and social activist. She was well known as a wife of Chinese writer Lu Xun.
WYang Erche Namu is a Chinese writer and singer of Mosuo ethnicity.
WYang Jiang was a Chinese playwright, author, and translator. She wrote several successful comedies, and was the first Chinese person to produce a complete Chinese version of Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote.
WLu Yin (1899–1934) was a 20th-century Chinese writer. Her books are not happy and they discuss the position of women in China in her stories. She was very well known in the 1920s and is best known for her novel The Ivory Ring. Bing Xin, Lin Huiyin and Lu Yin have been called the "three talented women in Fuzhou".
WZeng Baosun or Tseng Pao Swen was a Chinese feminist, historian, and Christian educator.